of adoptions like these including that of travis tolliver who was also raised in america and didn't meet his biological mother until he was 41 years old. >> i was wanted, you know. i wasn't given up willingly like i thought for all these years. so that makes my heart feel wonderful. >> reporter: in 2015, chilean authorities named a special prosecutor to begin investigating a list of these so-called irregular adoptions, a list reported to include nearly 600 families. this man heads an organization that helps families find each other and has an even larger list. >> we have 3,000 people that are looking for them. these are adoptive people and families that are looking for babies that were stolen from them. >> reporter: she says during those decades, there were entire mafia stealing babies from